British writer Samantha Harvey won the prestigious Booker Prize on Tuesday for her short novel following six astronauts as they contemplate Earth from the International Space Station. Spanning the course of a single day, Harvey’s “Orbital” tracks astronauts from Japan, Russia, the United States, Britain and Italy as they observe and reflect on their home planet, …
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is taking up golf after years away from the game to prepare for future encounters with US President-elect Donald Trump, his office said Wednesday.Yoon, 63, has not played in nearly a decade, an official told AFP, but in anticipation of the second Trump administration will dust off his clubs.”In …
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Residents of India’s capital New Delhi choked in a blanketing toxic smog Wednesday as worsening air pollution surged past 50 times the World Health Organization’s recommended daily maximum.Many in the city cannot afford air filters, nor do they have homes they can effectively seal from the misery of foul smelling air blamed for thousands of …
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Rosy-cheeked cherubs surrounded by blues, reds and golds have lost none of their brilliance in 17th-century frescoes discovered behind a false ceiling at the Villa Farnesina palace in Rome.The three paintings were hidden above the vaulted ceiling of what was once the living room of Agostino Chigi, a wealthy banker and Renaissance patron who had …
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Airlines in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and Singapore cancelled flights to and from the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Wednesday, after a nearby volcano catapulted an ash tower miles into the sky.Australia’s Jetstar, Qantas and Virgin Australia all grounded flights after Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Flores island spewed a nine-kilometre (5.6-mile) tower a …
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A Greenland court will decide Wednesday whether to further extend US-Canadian anti-whaling activist Paul Watson’s time in custody pending a decision on his extradition to Japan, where he is wanted over an altercation with whalers.”The public prosecutor has requested an extension of the custody period,” the prosecutor in charge of the case, Mariam Khalil, told …
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After fleeing Iran and making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, Kurdish activist Maysoon Majidi did not expect to be jailed in Italy for people smuggling.But the day after arriving on a boat last December, she was arrested and held for 10 months — a victim, her supporters say, of a migration clampdown by Giorgia …
Billionaire Elon Musk took a wild gamble backing Donald Trump’s White House candidacy, but the bet has paid off — at least for now — with the US president-elect handing him an outsized role to overhaul the government.Musk said before the election that a new “Department of Government Efficiency” would slash $2 trillion from the …
At least 35 people were killed and dozens more injured when a man ploughed his car into pedestrians exercising around a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Monday night.Footage showing bodies lying on the pavement appeared on social media in the hours after the crash but had vanished by early Tuesday …
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Residents of India’s capital New Delhi choked in a blanketing toxic smog Wednesday as worsening air pollution surged past 50 times the World Health Organization’s recommended daily maximum.Cooler temperatures and slow-moving winds trap deadly pollutants.At dawn on Wednesday, “hazardous” pollutant levels in parts of the sprawling urban area of more than 30 million people topped …
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